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Adam Portraiture Award and Exhibition
The Adam Foundation sponsors a biennial award for portraiture. Most recent
winners 'Girl in Blue' and 'Hans' are in our on-line
gallery.
Pictured at right are Denis Adam, benefactor and Avenal McKinnon, Director of
NZPG.
Adam Award 2008
On Wednesday 20 February 2008, the Adam Portaiture exhibition began with the winner being announced and the first prize of $15000 awarded. Public exhibition began the next day 21 February and the exhibition ran in Wellington until Sunday 30 March.
Eastern Southland Art Gallery Adam Award Exhibition
36 portraits from the Adam Award Exhibition 2008 exhibited at the Eastern Southland Art Gallery in Gore from 28 June - 3 August 2008.
See the selections or download a pdf file of all 36 images with captions (850kb - 2 minutes on dialup)
The Adam Portraiture Award and Exhibition ran in Wellington between February 21 and Sunday March 30 and the selection at Lopdell House Auckland 17 April to June 8 2008
The 2008 Adam Award held in Shed 11, was judged by Lilly Koltun of Le
Musée de Portrait du Canada. http://www.portraits.gc.ca/
Pictured at right are artist Irene Ferguson and judge Lilly Koltun with the winning painting - The Blue Girl.
On the left are the highly commended oil painting by Justin Pearson of Alan Pearson (in dark shirt) entitled “Dad”, and “In His Element” by Denise Simmonds, a watercolour portrait of Graham Clyde Henry.
Lower right Freeman White the 2006 winner congratulates Irene.
A conditon of the Adam Award is that the The New Zealand Portrait Gallery keeps the winner of the Competition for its own collection. These cannot be permanently hung at present.
The original documentation for entering the 2008 awards can be found on our archives page.